Unusual garden guest

Unusual garden guest

PENETANGUISHENE – A five-spotted hawkmoth (manduca quinquemaculata) flutters about the garden in the backyard of Penetanguishene resident Paul Henderson’s Centre Street home.
“We thought it was a hummingbird,” said Henderson, who snapped this photograph around 9:15 p.m. on July 15. “I haven’t seen one of these in 20 years. It’s quite rare.”
The moth, which can grow to have a wingspan of 13 centimetres, is found in most of the United States, as well as Mexico and Nicaragua, but only occasionally in southern Canada.